#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Std; my @patterns = ( qr/error/i, qr/FATAL/, qr/Critical/, qr/exception/, ); my $re = join '|', @patterns; my %opt = ( B => 5, A => 5 ); getopts('B:A:', \%opt); my $window = $opt{B} + $opt{A} + 1; my $emit = 0; my @lines; while (<>) { $emit = $window if /$re/; splice(@lines, 0, 0, $_); --$emit < 0 ? splice(@lines, $opt{B}) : print splice(@lines, -1); }